"If Africans come from us": deep time versus the documented returns

SUMMARY"If Africans come from us": deep time versus the documented returns (Nov 5, 2026). Tito: "If Africans come from us, what does that mean? If they eventually either traveled or were exiled, then what?"

LENS (WW9)the ancient Americans traveled or were exiled to Africa, and today's "African" ancestry partly reflects the Americas.
RECORD, deep time (mainstream, held to the same standard): the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils are from Africa (Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, about 300,000 years); human genetic diversity is highest in Africa and lowest in the Americas, the pattern expected if the Americas were peopled last; the oldest firm dates for people in the Americas are about 21,000–23,000 years (White Sands footprints). If Africans descended from Americans, African genomes would carry a Native-American-like signal; no published study has found one. The deep-time Lens is not supported by the current record. OPEN, needs deep research.
RECORD, the documented returns (Americans who did go to Africa): Black Loyalists from Nova Scotia founded Freetown, Sierra Leone (1792); the Trelawny Maroons, exiled from Jamaica after 1796, were sent on to Sierra Leone (1800); the American Colonization Society's settlers founded Liberia (1822; independence 1847); Afro-Brazilian returnees, the Agudás of Benin, Togo and Nigeria and the Tabom of Ghana (from 1836), carried Brazilian names and Catholic ways back to West Africa

PATTERNpeople of the Americas were shipped, exiled or recruited to Africa again and again in the 1790s–1840s, and they founded whole towns and countries there

LENS (WW9)the Americas sent people to Africa on the record; the deeper claim needs its own receipts

OPENNative ancestry among Liberian and Sierra Leonean founders' descendants; Maroon and Black Seminole lines among the exiles. Needs deep research.